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Town Upholds $30 Ticket Issued to Woman Claiming To Do Good Deed
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The Parking Commission at its most recent meeting upheld a $30 ticket issued to a woman who claimed that she was actually doing a good deed when she failed to pay for parking in downtown New Canaan. Anne Nesbitt told members of the appointed body during her Oct. 7 appeal hearing that didn’t understand the free three-hour “upper lot” behind Elm Street was the one at the highest grade, known locally as the “Park Street Lot.”
Instead, Nesbitt—a Weston resident—parked in the Playhouse Lot (facing a payment kiosk) thinking it was free. What’s more, according to Nesbitt, she only parked there because she could see someone with a cane—described at other points during her hearing as multiple people with canes—walking in the Park Street Lot, and believed that she would be doing a good deed by leaving those spaces to people with mobility challenges, because there was a stairway there down to Elm Street. (Note: There’s also a stairway and ADA-compliant ramp for disabled people next to the Playhouse Lot.)
“I saw people with a cane walking down those stairs and so I really just thought you know, I’m a senior but I have really good mobility and what the heck it’s a nice day, I’ll park in the one that’s farthest from the stops because then that will make it easier for somebody else,” Nesbitt said during the Commission’s meeting, held at Town Hall and via videoconference.
